Creative Writing Agenda

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PRP03 2010-2011 Seminar: Creative Writing
This half-credit English elective introduces students to effective writing techniques to express creative ideas in themes, essays, short stories, poetry, and journalistic writing.

Creative Writing Syllabus


Daily Agenda

Daily Agenda
 Day 1 Friday Oct 15

Introduction,
Course Objectives

Parameters of the course
EXPECTATIONS!

Gmail set-up
First draft documents:
  • Scary Story1
  • Gunslinger1
  • Science Fiction1
 Day 2 Mon Oct 18

REVIEW EXPECTATIONS
Discuss Google Documents,
Video-Google docs
sharing, points of order
Discuss Genre
Discuss/view Wiki page
Complete sentences
First draft documents:
about your morning
 Day 3 Tue Oct 19

EXPECTATIONS

National Gallery
of Writing

Intro to Wikis

Podcast
Lit throw-down
  • Moment 2
Select from:
*I'll have to start all
over from square
one again.
OR tell about a time
when you were:
*not able to face
something or
someone
*fighting a losing
battle
*trying to hold on
 Day 4 Wed Oct 20

CATCH-UP DAY

DISCUSS Revision
DISCUSS Editing
DISCUSS 6 Traits

BE SURE you
have ALL of the
required writings
in DRAFT form.
The following drafts
should be sent to
Miss Nedry:
  • Scary Story 1
  • Gunslinger 1
  • Moment 1
Work on submission
for the National
Gallery of Writing
showcase!
Day 5 Th Oct 21

Review
Discussed dialogue
rules
Discussed point
of view/perspective
Reviewed a model
of Moment 4 on
inanimate objects
Assignments:
  • Moment 3
*Select from:
Why do you love homework?
Why do you love spinach or liver?
Why do you hate ice cream?
Why do you hate spending time
with your friends?
  • Moment 4
*Inanimate object - 280-400 words
 Day 6 Friday Oct 22

Review
Discuss Revision
Keep in mind the
6 Traits Rubric for
scoring of your pieices
Also, REVISE and EDIT
as you re-read your
pieces --
read, re-read, revise,
re-read, edit, read,
revise, re-read, read,
edit, re-read, revise,
...get the picture?!

Reviewed adding
"Comments" in
Google docs
Writing assignment:
(Use the link or
See Google doc for
prompts)
350-500 words
 Day 7 Mon Oct 25

HALF-WAY THROUGH PRP03

DUE: Worksheets on
Using Active and
Passive Voice

In Class: we shared documents
and assessed these pieces
for:
  • Word Choice
  • Voice
  • Idea Development
and left comments for our
friend!

We also worked on
using vivid verbs to create
lively images in our
writing

Writing Assignment:
  • Animal 1 (300-400 words)

ALSO:
  • Worksheets on Building
Coherent Paragraphs
 Day 8 Tue Oct 26

Review Progress
Reports

Review HOW TO
SHARE DOCS
Review WIKI PAGE
Review WHAT IS DUE
Discuss WORD COUNT

In Class: share docs and
assess pieces for:
  • sentence fluency
  • organization
and COMMENT!

We looked at how some
famous authors began
their pieces. Using one
of their techniques, or
one of your own - -
Begin DRAFT of
  • Lead 1
(300-500 words)

TO DO: Worksheets on
Proofreading
WORK ON adding your
comment (text or voice)
to Mosaic Voice Thread
 Day 9 Wed Oct 27

ZOMBIELAND Draft


CONTINUE to work
on DRAFTS and
FINAL copies of
your pieces - ALSO
continue to work on
SHARING Docs
with your
classmates to get
their input on the
TRAITS:
  • Ideas
  • Organization
  • Voice
  • Sentence
Fluency
  • Word Choice

WRITING
GUIDELINES
Day 10 Th Oct 28

Reviewed progress reports,
due dates, point values,
scoring of FINAL pieces

BE SURE YOU MEET ALL
OF THE CRITERIA FOR
YOUR FINAL PIECES

BEFORE

YOU SUBMIT THEM!!
 Day 11 Friday Oct 29

BEGIN DRAFT of
  • Scary Story 3
(draft should be
100-200 words--as
FINAL will need to
be 200-400 words)

WORK ON FINALIZING:
  • Scary Story 1/1A
(300-500 words)
  • Moment 1
(300-500 words)
  • Gunslinger 1
(300-500 words)
 Day 12 Mon Nov 1

WORK ON
FINALIZING:
  • Moment 2
(350-500 words)
  • Science Fiction 1
(400-600 words)
  • Scary Story 2
(350-500 words)
 Day 13 Tue Nov 2

WORK ON FINALIZING:
  • Moment 3
(300-500 words)
  • Moment 4
(280-400 words)
  • Animal 1
(350-600 words)
  • Mystery 1
(300-500 words)
 Day 14 Wed Nov 3

WORK ON
FINALIZING:
  • Lead 1 (300-500 words)
  • Zombieland 400-600 words
  • Scary Story 3 200-400 words

Any other work that may be due.....


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